Daily Thoughts From God's Word

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?       Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day,...

You know, sometimes, rather than commenting on biblical texts and offering our own thoughts, it seems best just to let the Scripture text...

I'm not sure what happened. I thought for sure I had posted this, yesterday morning. Oh, well. How about a psalm by psalm thematic...

Thanksgiving, remembering, gladness, praise.  The genuinely Christian life is characterized by such things.  We are overwhelmed with...

A statement I make every time I begin the book of Psalms:  “If pushed to name my favorite book of the Old Testament (A hard thing to do...

It is now time for God to speak.  And, wow, how he speaks!  “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:  ‘Who is this that...

Job’s three “friends” wrapped up their dialogue with Job:  “So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own...

Bildad continues the line of reasoning presented by all Job’s friends:  “How then can man be in the right before God?  How can he who is...

Job’s friends continue to speak (Zophar in chapter 20).  You know, these guys sometimes are not completely off-base:  indeed, the godless...

Job was “a just and blameless man” who had become a “laughingstock” (12:4).  And this on top of the physical, emotional, and spiritual...

Eliphaz has spoken and argued that Job must have done something terrible to incur such suffering as he was experiencing.  Job has...

Job’s friends have come and sat with him.  And I do believe that they are friends, just misguided and ignorant friends.  When all others...

Satan was convinced that Job worshipped God only for what he could get out of God.  Job had wealth, he had healthy children, he had land...

History moves on, and people just do what they do.  Farmers farm.  Builders build.  Fishermen fish.  Teachers teach.  And kings sit on...

“And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its...